The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded
for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will
<D be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his writing. This first volume is released on Dickens'
£ 200th birthday, February 7th 2012. Further volumes will follow during the anniversary year.
3 Volume 1 includes short stories including, amongst others, The Holly Tree, the first part of Holiday
"3 Romance and three pieces from Mugby Junction.
> Some items requiring a little further explanation are Prince Bull, written as a fairy tale, but in reality
a scathing attack on the Government's handling of supplies to the troops in the Crimean War; Old
Lamps for New Ones in which Dickens makes clear his low opinion of the ethos of the Pre-
Raphaelite school of painting; and Frauds on the Fairies, a polemic against George Cruikshank's
O bowdlerisation of fairy tales for moralistic purposes, and the interesting revelation that 'product
_SJ placement' is by no means a new phenomenon. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)
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01 Prince Bull, a Fairy Tale from Reprinted Pieces : 02 The Poor Relation's Story from Some

J/J Christmas Stories **03 Speech: February 1842, Boston 04-Barbox Brothers from Mugby Junction
£j 05-Barbox Brothers & Co. from Mugby Junction 06-Main Line: The Boy at Mugby from Mugby Junction
> 07-Frauds on the Fairies from Household Words Vol. VIII No. 184
£ 08- Introductory Romance from the Pen of William Tinkling Esq. (Aged Eight) from Holiday Romance 09-
C Old Lamps for New Ones from Old lamps for new ones, and other sketches and essays 10-A Tale of the
^ Good Old Times from Pearl-Fishing; Choice stories from Dickens' Household Words 1 1 -Some Particulars

Concerning a Lion from Mudfog and Other Sketches
© 12-To be Read at Dusk 13-The Ghost of the Late Mr. James Barber from Pearl-Fishing: Choice Stories

from Dickens' Household Words 14-The Amusements of the People 1 from Old lamps for new ones,
m and other sketches and essays hitherto uncollected 15-A Walk In a Workhouse from Reprinted
C Pieces 16-The Hymn of the Wiltshire Labourers from The Complete Poems 17-Speech: London, June
O 5 1867 to the Railway Benevolent Society 18-The Holly Tree First Branch - Myself 19-The Holly Tree
"q Second Branch - The Boots 20-The Holly Tree Third Branch - The Bill

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